Monday, February 27, 2012

Mountain Biking and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu


I am going to take up TWO new sports... Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Grappling) and Mountain Biking!

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting. It teaches that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant by using leverage and proper technique – most notably by applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the other person. BJJ training can be used for sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition or self defense.

Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.

Mountain biking can generally be broken down into multiple categories: cross country (XC), trail riding, all mountain, downhill, freeride, dirt jumping and trials. The vast majority of mountain biking falls into the recreational XC, and Trail Riding categories.

This individual sport requires endurance, core strength and balance, bike handling skills, and self-reliance. XC type mountain biking generally requires a different range of skills and a higher level of fitness than other types of mountain biking. Advanced riders pursue steep technical descents and, in the case of freeriding, downhilling, and dirt jumping, aerial maneuvers off of specially constructed jumps and ramps.

Convict Conditioning

Handstand negatives (decending slowly – no pushing) on parallettes for 2x3

Pistol Squat for 10 reps (per side) for 2 sets

Lever one-arm fingertip push-ups for 2x3

Muay Thai Kickboxing training for 1 hour - working on flying knee kicks and elbow strikes

Gymnastics

Legless rope-climb for 4 ascents (30 foot rope)

Freestanding Handstand Practice (slowly trying to balance on hands away from wall) – was able to do about 3-4 seconds

Quote of the Day

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." ~Elbert Hubbard

Song of the Day

Towers - Bon Iver


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